This was revealed during an investor conference call

Jan 22, 2015 10:11 GMT  ·  By

The graphics card market may be set to receive an update from Advanced Micro Devices, but it won't happen before the second quarter, and now we learn that new CPUs/APUs won't come out before then either.

There was some inkling of this, not too long ago. Carrizo for desktop and fresh Kaveri APUs were set to debut this year, and the 20nm Amur and Nolan were said to be set for a Q3 release.

Those were just reports, however, nothing really confirmed by the Sunnyvale, California-based company itself.

Now, it appears that we finally have official word on the matter, thanks to a conference call with investors held this week.

The gist of it is that product launches will only “resume” in the second quarter, April as it were, and will stretch through the rest of the year.

Terms we already heard before were bandied about, like the aforementioned Carrizo APUs, but AMD's CEO Lisa Su also brought up the “Seattle” Opteron enterprise CPUs.

The products set to debut first

Other than Carrizo and new Kaveri, there's the Opteron “Seattle” enterprise central processing unit. This processor will use eight ARM Cortex A-57 64-bit cores and sell to makers and administrators of ultra-dense servers.

You can probably imagine how much more efficient these chips will be compared to x6-based models. Higher efficiency and lower temperature means less money and energy put into cooling.

The Radeon R9 300 Series of graphics cards will debut as well. This video game graphics card collection will be represented by the AMD Radeon R9 380X Fiji, with its 4,096 Graphics Core-Next cores and 5 GB of HBM memory.

That leaves one product that has only barely been mentioned in reports, and is appropriately mysterious.

The Trinidad GPU

This processor will be a mid-range chip that will succeed the Curacao and settle in the $200 / €170 - €200 graphics card price point. We'll keep an eye out for more information, but for now it seems likely that the GPU will have 1280 or more stream processors. “Carribean Islands” is the unofficial name of the new GPU family.

AMD 2015-bound products (4 Images)

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